Barça announces the signing of Jabari Parker

The Barça basketball section already has a new reinforcement for Roger Grimau's first project at the helm of the Barça first team. The entity chaired by Joan Laporta has announced this Monday the incorporation of Jabari Parker, a power forward who was number two in the NBA draft in 2014 and who, after a few years in which injuries have greatly affected his performance, lands in the Palau Blaugrana clearly with the mission of picking up the baton from Nikola Mirotic, whose contract was terminated unilaterally by the club.

The signing of this power forward also comes after Barça also announced the termination of the contract of American Cory Higgins, who still had a year left on his contract, as one more measure to cut expenses, given that his, Like Mirotic's, it was one of the highest chips on the squad. Parker, who throughout his career has gone through teams such as the Milwaukee Bucks, the Chicago Bulls, the Washington Wizards, the Atlanta Hawks, the Sacramento Kings or the Boston Celtics, until now his last experience as a player, arrives at Barça eager to rediscover his best level after having chained multiple physical problems.

The injuries, throughout the last years, have been an ordeal for him. In particular, two anterior cruciate ligament tears that left him out of action for a long time, to which shoulder or ankle problems were also added.. So much so that in the last five years he has only been able to play 31 games. His experience at Barça, in addition, will be the first in Europe and, despite the fact that initially the official statement from the club assured that his incorporation was pending passing the pending medical check-ups, the transfer has been considered completely closed from his social networks .

A signing that, in this case, joins those of Joel Parra, Willy Hernangómez and Darío Brizuela to put together a squad that, despite the losses of Sanli, Tobey, Kuric, Higgins and, above all, Mirotic, is shaping up to be terribly competitive to face the next course.